Showing posts with label Spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirituality. Show all posts

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Shane Claiborne: A Monastic Revolution

A Monastic Revolution
On Being (American Public Media)

Shane Claiborne is a leading spirit in a gathering movement of young people known as the New Monastics. Emerging from the edges of Evangelical Christianity, they are patterning their lives in response to the needs of the poor — and the detachment they see in our culture's vision of adulthood.

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Arthur Zajonc: Holding Life Consciously

Holding Life Consciously
On Being (American Public Media)

Arthur Zajonc sees contemplation as investigating life from the inside — and now it is teaching him about living with Parkinson's Disease. We hear how this physicist draws on the humanities and meditation to integrate the intellectual and sensory aspects of life.

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John Paul Lederach: The Art of Peace

The Art of Peace
On Being

John Paul Lederach describes what really happens when people transcend violence while living in it, and so find the moral imagination to live beyond it. Also, stories you've never heard in the news — from Colombia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Sierra Leone, Northern Ireland, and Burma.

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